“Schomburg Center, Harlem, New York,” by Kadir Nelson

Kadir Nelson’s painting for the cover of this week’s issue celebrates the Schomburg Research Center, in Harlem. He says he wanted to create “a stylistic montage as an homage to the great Harlem Renaissance painters: Aaron Douglas, William H. Johnson, Norman Lewis, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Archibald Motley, and Palmer Hayden.” Also on Nelson’s mind were artists and performers like the Nicholas Brothers, Billie Holiday, and Duke Ellington; the activist Malcolm X; and writers such as James Baldwin and Zora Neale Hurston. via:TheNewYorker

“Mom & Pop Mega Superstore”by Bruce McCall

“Everything that I knew in 1964 is gone,” says this week’s cover artist, Bruce McCall, who came to New York from Canada that year. “I realize there’s a natural cycle. Nothing lasts more than thirty years. No shop, no franchise, even, ever stays more than thirty years. It all just keeps flipping over all the time.

“What’s going on in New York today, and I guess in most cities—the turnover of small parcels of property to big megastores and apartment buildings with large chain stores—it leaves you feeling very nostalgic. The restaurants I went to, the dry cleaner, the bank, the greasy spoons—they’re all different now. I lived on East Seventy-first Street for my first three years in Manhattan. Now a lot of the old brownstones there have been torn down, and they’re huge apartment buildings. You can’t live in this city anymore unless you’re a millionaire.”

by Christoph Niemann via:newyorker

“When I arrived in New York for the first time, it was pouring,” the German artist Christoph Niemann says. “Maybe that’s why, to my mind, there’s no place on earth where being stuck in traffic on a rainy day is more beautiful.”

“Memorial Plaza,” by Adrian Tomine

“When I heard that the 9/11 memorial and museum were going to be the top tourist attractions in New York this summer,” Adrian Tomine says about this week’s cover, “I first sketched only tourists going about their usual happy activities, with the memorial in the background. But when I got to the site, I instantly realized that there was a lot more to be captured—specifically, a much, much wider range of emotions and reactions, all unfolding in shockingly close proximity. I guess that’s the nature of any public space, but when you add in an element of such extreme grief and horror, the parameters shift.”

The cartoonist Bob Eckstein walks around New York City and draws his favorite bookstores. 

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NEW YORK, CITY ON MANY WATERS, 1956

Fritz Busse, back cover (by arthurvankruining)

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because America pt 6:   Ο Morrisssey αποχαιρετάει τη Ν.Υόρκη . TALES OF THE SMITHS του Con Chrisoulis

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because America pt 4: ο Morrisssey στη Ν.Υόρκη και οι αλλαγές που συμβαίνουν στη ζωή του

TALES OF THE SMITHS του Con Chrisoulis.

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because America pt 3: ο Morrisssey στη Ν.Υόρκη και οι New York Dolls

TALES OF THE SMITHS του Con Chrisoulis.

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o Moz στη Νέα Υόρκη, Holidays in the sun pt9 δείτε την αρχή της ιστορίας ΕΔΩ 

TALES OF THE SMITHS του Con Chrisoulis.

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…έφτασε η ώρα για το μεγάλο ταξίδι του νεαρού Morrissey …TALES OF THE SMITHS του Con Chrisoulis.

Vanity Fair, June 1925. A Cross-Section of the Sidewalks of New York

Drawing by Fish via:littlewhitelies

what are you up to this weekend?
by Liz Climo

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#Tales #Moz #NY #Con

Ένας χρόνος έμεινε για να τελειώσουν τα “βάσανα” του νεαρού Moz και να γίνει το όνειρό του πραγματικότητα…Δείτε την αρχή ΕΔΩ …Tales of The Smiths καθημερινά από τον Con Chrisoulis  !

ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΣ: Ποια πόλη πιστεύετε ότι θα ταίριαζε περισσότερο στον “μουντρούχο” νεαρό Morrissey; Γράψτε την απάντησή σας ΕΔΩ μέχρι τη Δευτέρα 28/01 και μπείτε στην κλήρωση για ένα κουτί ΙΟΝ Σοκοφρέτες της επιλογής σας.

CONTEST: Which city do you believe would best suit the gloomy young Morrissey? Give your answer HERE by Monday 28/01 and you might win a box of ION Sokofreta!

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#Tales #Moz #NY #Con

Η εβδομάδα στο Tales of The Smiths του Con Chrisoulis  ξεκινάει με το επερχόμενο ταξίδι του Moz, δώρο της μητέρας του, στη Νέα Υόρκη….

O ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΜΑΣ ΟΛΟΚΛΗΡΩΘΗΚΕ! ΝΙΚΗΤΡΙΑ Η ΑΓΑΠΗ!

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#LittleMan #moz #tales #con #100

Το σημερινό Tales of The Smiths του Con Chrisoulis φτάνει στο #100 και μία ευχάριστη έκπληξη περιμένει το νεαρό Moz! Little Man, What Now? διαβάστε το 1ο μέρος ΕΔΩ  , το 2ο μέρος ΕΔΩ, το 3ο μέρος ΕΔΩ  και 4ο ΕΔΩ

ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΣ: Τώρα που ο Morrissey θα δώσει εισακτήριες εξετάσεις, ποια σχολή να δηλώσει πρώτη στο μηχανογραφικό; Γράψτε την απάντησή σας  ΕΔΩ μέχρι τη Δευτέρα 21/12 ώρα 11:00 και μπείτε στην κλήρωση για ένα κουτί Σοκοφρέτες της επιλογής σας!

CONTEST:Now that Morrissey is about to sit his GCSE examination, if he succeeds what course do you think he should study? Give your answer  HERE by Monday 21/12 and you might win a box of ION Sokofreta!

by Toby Triumph

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